Marc Marquez’s mother is ‘scared’ by one thing she’s reading after the Thailand Grand Prix

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Marc Marquez and his brother Alex waved to their mother in the cooldown room after the Thailand Grand Prix. They had finished one-two in a MotoGP race for the first time.

This was Marquez Sr’s 63rd victory in the premier class and the sixth time his younger sibling has stood on the podium. But they’ve never landed in the top three in this order.

The Thailand Grand Prix weekend was the Marquez show as the Spanish duo took a one-two in qualifying and held off Francesco Bagnaia thereafter. After a relatively uneventful Sprint, Marc had to move over and let Alex through in the main race.

The Ducati factory rider had noticed that his tyre pressures were outside the permitted range. That risked a 16-second penalty that would have sent him tumbling down the order.

Dropping behind Alex allowed him to coax the tyre back into the legal window. He then re-passed with three laps to go and stretched his advantage before the flag.

Marquez’s father felt ‘overwhelmed’ as he watched on from the garage in Buriram. The difference between the 2024 and 2025 bikes remains relatively small for now, giving Alex the platform to compete.

Marc Marquez’s mother uneasy after seeing her son ‘declared the champion already’

Speaking to AS, Marquez’s mother Roser Alenta urged him to ‘control the euphoria’. She’s concerned by the emerging narrative around the 2025 season.

Her feeling is that Marquez is ‘being declared the champion’ with 21 rounds still to go. It would be his first title since 2019, and his seventh in MotoGP – matching Valentino Rossi.

Neil Hodgson says Marquez landed a ‘knockout punch’ on Bagnaia after just one race. But Alenta is ‘afraid’ rather than ‘excited’.

She might be wary of Bagnaia fighting back, or of an external threat emerging. But more than that, perhaps, she knows one fall can change everything, having seen Marquez go through injury hell after his 2020 Jerez crash.

“I feel a bit scared, because I am afraid that they will get carried away,” Alenta said of her sons. “I don’t like Marc being declared the champion already.

“In Thailand everything went well, but we have to relax, continue doing well throughout the year and control the euphoria. Having said that, I am the first one who is very happy, but I am not getting excited because I am afraid.”

Francesco Bagnaia won’t like what Marc Marquez did inside Ducati garage at Thailand Grand Prix

Marquez has already established a psychological advantage over Bagnaia, or so it would seem. The Italian needs to enter the second race in Argentina with a chip on his shoulder in light of recent coverage.

Bagnaia tried to leave the press conference early in Thailand, a sign of his frustration. He felt somewhat ignored as all the questions were directed to the top two.

Most worryingly of all, Mat Oxley says Ducati engineers are already gravitating to Marquez. For so long the number one, Bagnaia needs to win them back.

One close confidante believes Marquez is an improved rider at Ducati. He’s far more risk-averse than he was at Honda, which will no doubt be reassuring to his mother.